GLI.TC/H was a simple idea hatched upon the notion of kindred spirits gathering together and engaging/chatting/debating the issues/theories/concerns of failure, systems, art, and glitches.

Out of that simple idea, grew a multi-faceted happening encompassing glitch art exhibitions, video screenings, panel discussions, realtime audio/video performances, hacking workshops, publications, and ongoing online components. These free & open public events have helped to gather, connect, expose and cultivate an extremely diverse, amazingly deep, somewhat quirky community made up of artists, educators, tinkerers, hackers and a public existing around and beyond this field that celebrates and investigates technological mishaps, digital hiccups, and failure.

Over the last three years, GLI.TC/H has become a globally recognized context/platform for creative folks to share tools, skills, and ideas concerning breaks in technology: what has come to be known as “glitch art”. GLI.TC/H focuses a lense on glitches and artist who leverage them to spark firey convos burning from within our contemporary digitized condition.

In the fields of media arts and media literacy, GLI.TC/H provides a context to question systems, critique obsolescence, and consider creative problem creating along-side creative problem solving. Participants have expressed that learning “that there is no right way to do something with a computer” is a powerful idea.

Our playful approach fosters a critical engagement with technology. The impact can be personal: Someone not fearing their computer – Or cultural: By considering the digital systems at play in our lives, users and artists can instigate dialogue around issues of privacy, copyright, and network neutrality. Moreover, GLI.TC/H strives to contribute to building a critical community, not only by being a context but also as a platform for generating resources and scholarship - including interviews, publications and a collaborative wiki.

From the first GLI.TC/H in 2010 on, we consciously adopted a free and open DIT (Do It Together) ethic. There are no submission fees and there have been no ticket sales. We believe that (exorbitant) entrance fees and exclusive passes can often create obstacles against the kind of horizontal participation we aim for. Elements that contribute to this openness are: theoretical threads, collaborative docs for publication, debates, online repositories, an ongoing active research wiki, and workshops which range from creative coding to hardware hacking. As a result of this openness, GLI.TC/H has become a multi-faceted community event.

▀─█┐GLI.TC/H 2112; a new kind of monsterEducation has always played a role in GLI.TC/H: from organized workshops, to performers informally sharing their hacked and homebrewed gear with attendees, to theory sessions over pizza.

As learning, sharing and growing have become central thematic nodes, the GLI.TC/H events are organized into “threads." So, this year, we're launching a new model. It's framework is built upon participatory 'threads' (or classes) with different focuses, complimented by panels/presentations throughout the day and installations and performative share fests in the evenings.

Threads were chosen through an open call for ideas earlier this year and are provide pathways for folks to dig deeper into the many realms of glitches. You can hop over to the working groups to join in on the conversations and help shape GLI.TC/H 2112.

Let's make this gathering happen together again!

Executing GLI.TC/H takes considerable resources. We're reaching out to you (and your networks) in an effort to help amplify these efforts and make GLI.TC/H 2112 a reality.

Your donation will be use for the decimation of festival data, workshop materials, and resources for this year's threads. Of course, the biggest incentive we can offer is you supporting GLI.TC/H 2112 in growing and developing the glitch art community.

Risks and challenges

GLI.TC/H has never been and cannot be just a static, white or black boxed exhibition. As learning, sharing and growing have become central thematic nodes of the GLI.TC/H events, a lot of formatting changes and challenges have surfaced; organizationally, GLI.TC/H is growing into a kind of demo-party/glitch-school hybrid, directly focused on the ‘conversation’. GLI.TC/H will continue to include screenings/performances/etc as it has in the past, but these aspects of the conference/festival/gathering will live upon the educational platform as supportive components of the aforementioned “threads”. An exhibition is preceded and partially resulting from this three day gathering of GLI.TC/H enthusiasts, making and sharing theories, performances and work collaboratively.
To not only get conversations going, but also to push the conversations towards productive, new areas, GLI.TC/H thread facilitators need to be familiar with the histories, turning points and niches that are part of the glitch communities. They need to have a curatorial insight, theoretical knowledge and teaching competence. For GLI.TC/H we want to bring together, IRL, from all over the world, a team of knowledgeable facilitators who have a vision for GLI.TC/H turns. Without them, we risk GLI.TC/H not to have the strong, coherent structure that it needs, to make it the most successful celebration of failure.

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A DIGITAL COPY OF THE 2112 GLI.TC/H READER[ROR] — — The GLI.TC/H/READER[ROR] is a compendium of TXTs by authors and artists about decay, interruption, collapse, implosion and failure. It will include essays/thoughts/txt-based outputs from the GLI.TC/H 2112 thread leaders && participants

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GLI.TC/H 2112 READER[ROR] 1ST PRINTED EDITION && SUPPORTER BADGE — — The GLI.TC/H/READER[ROR] is a compendium of TXTs by authors and artists about decay, interruption, collapse, implosion and failure. It will include essays/thoughts/txt-based outputs from the GLI.TC/H 2112 thread leaders && participants + Wear the GLI.TC/H Supporter Badge to openings && events to show your support for the festival/conference/gathering. We are working with local businesses near the venues to offer special deals for glitchers. — — #INCLUDE: An old skool FLOPPY DISK with new skool surprise artware + GLI.TC/H 2112 STICKER PACK + digital copy of the 2112 READER[ROR] + A very warm THANK YOU on the GLI.TC/H website and in the 2112 READER[ROR]

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GLI.TC/H 2112 T-SHIRT && SUPPORTER BADGE —— A limited-run 2112 GLI.TC/H T-Shirts + Wear the GLI.TC/H Supporter Badge to openings && events to show your support for the festival/conference/gathering. We are working with local businesses near the venues to offer special deals for glitchers. —— #INCLUDE: An old skool FLOPPY DISK with new skool surprise artware + GLI.TC/H 2112 STICKER PACK + digital copy of the 2112 READER[ROR] + A very warm THANK YOU on the GLI.TC/H website and in the 2112 READER[ROR]